A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap
Frank L. Holt, "A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap"
English | ISBN: 0197694047 | 2024 | 216 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 0197694047 | 2024 | 216 pages | PDF | 9 MB
As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view. Most Egyptian tombs are not royal; most were never carefully cleared and documented; most have not had their occupants treated with respect or returned to their sepulchers; and most recovered mummies have not escaped the modern trafficking in ancient bodies and body parts. The story of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from the infamous mummy-pits of Egypt, provides a salutary example of what most mummies have endured.
Like a detective, Frank Holt makes use of a robust combination of scientific tools and archival research to tell the story of Ankh-Hap's life, death, and his mummified remains, which ended up in the back of an American college classroom.
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